Esther Yang
Prof. Jason Arenstein
ROC 3
Part 1: Reading Reflection
There are two sources that I will be using throughout this ROC 3. It is a journal called RX Insider that lists all the next generation technologies that will be using in the future. The headline is “Discover the First and Only Next-Generation Pharmacy Automation.” This would be a great source because it answers “5 W’s and how” questions. Second source is an article called “The pharmacist’s Role in Treatment Adherence.” It is written by three professors in pharmacy department. This would be another great source because it explains why they are in the process of discovering new technologies. These two sources merge into last two sources that I used in essay 2. These new sources would be able to answer the new inquiry question “How do these new technologies affect pharmacy?”
Part 2: Reading Reflection
Topic: New technologies in pharmacy
Inquiry question: How do these new technologies affect pharmacy?
Thesis: New technologies are inventing to improve pharmacy.
Major pieces of supporting and complicating evidence:
Discover the First and Only Next-Generation Pharmacy Automation
By:
Fill- Parata Max, Parata Mini
Serve
Adhere
McKesson Automated Prescription Systems (APS)
McKesson Automation
ScriptPro
TCGRx
medDispense
Kirby Lester
AccuChart
Medical packaging
AmerisourceBergen
Swisslog
Medacist
Fulcrum
Innovation
Health Robotics
MTS Medication Technologies
Pearson Medical Technologies
Coldchain Technology Service
Omnicell, SPX GSE
The Pharmacist’s Role in Treatment Adherence
By: Bill G. Felkey, MS, Bruce A. Berger, PhD, RPh, Kem P. Krueger, PharmD, PhD
Improving adherence with medication regimens
Advances in telecommunications infrastructure may present many opportunities
Electronic Medical Records
Computerized Prescriber Order Entry
Pharmacy Management Systems
Internet-Based Pharmacy Communication
Telemedicine and Telepharmacy
Responding to the Medicare Modernization Act
Conclusion
Part 3: Observation
Many technologies have been listed and described in this journal. One of the few technologies is the McKesson Automated Prescription systems. This technology increases pharmacy efficiency and enhance patient safety. Pharmacists and technicians would be more productive and pharmacy efficiency would increase. Patients would receive better and safer care.
Discover the First and Only Next-Generation Pharmacy Automation
http://www.rxshowcase.com/pharmacy_automation_companies.htm
This article mostly talks about how to deliver drugs in safer ways. These three professors suggest pharmacists to seek patient consent for to access to their medical records. Using the electronic medical records, it would be helpful for pharmacists to communicate with physicians, nurses, and other health care practitioners. This technology would be very important to multidisplinary team (care giving).
The Pharmacist’s Role in Treatment Adherence. 15 Dec.2005
http://www.uspharmacist.com/index.asp?show=article&page=8_1647.htm
Part 4: Contemplation: Textual Relationships
The question is “How do these new technologies affect pharmacy?” Technology has been improving throughout the years to help pharmacy. Throughout these two sources, it has been proved that many technicians are trying hard to make many different kinds of technologies to improve. These two articles talk about different technologies that would improve for their patient’s safety and giving care.
There are many relationships between these two scholarly sources. The first source, McKeeson automated prescription system focuses on patient’s safety (McKeeson). In the second source, an electronic medical record focuses on how to communicate with different technicians to approach to care giving (Berger, Felkey, Krueger). As they both are focusing on the patients it separates to what kind of focusing on the patients is. They both have great impacts in pharmacy industry.
